This week I have been reading Max Lucado’s The Great House of God.  He unpacks a passage from Isaiah 55:8-9 in a way that really spoke to me.  Here is the passage and Lucado’s thoughts on it:

“My thoughts are not like your thoughts.  Your ways are not like my ways.  Just as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”  Isa. 55:8-9

Make special note of the word like.  God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are they even like ours.  We aren’t even in the same neighbourhood.  We’re thinking, ‘Preserve the body; he’s thinking, Save the soul.  We dream of a pay raise.  He dreams of raising the dead.  We avoid pain and seek peace.  God uses pain to bring peace.  “I’m going to live before I die,” we resolve.  “Die, so you can live,” he instructs.  We love what rusts.  He loves what endures.  We rejoice at our successes.  He rejoices at our confessions.  We show our children the Nike star with the million-dollar smile and say, “Be like Mike.” God points to the crucified carpenter with bloody lips and a torn side and says, “Be like Christ.”

What a great reminder this is for all of us today.  Let’s live like we believe it!

Michelle